[NNTP] NNTP working group status

[Ken Murchison]

ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:

> I agree with this assessment, although I have yet to review the STARTTLS
> draft to see if it meets all of the newer things the security folks want
> out of TLS in more recent protocols.

Ned, do you have a reference to these "newer things" so I can get a jump 
on them?


> As a purely practical point, if all of them get to the RFC Editor within a
> reasonably close period of time the RFC Editor is likely to lump them together
> in terms of the RFC numbers they get. They're smart this way... Although if we
> got a move on we might even be able to get RFC 3977 as the number for the
> revised NNTP specification ;-)

This has already been suggested and I believe Russ was looking into it.

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